quotes

Here's some of my favorite quotes that the Reverend has made.

"We are trying to stand up to something that represented 'judge not and love thy neighbor', and some people completely disregarded that. Usually the people that I'm criticizing particulary in America where people lack a sense of irony go on to prove that point. I don't dislike America. I just like to look at things and talk about things that most people are too afraid to talk about."

"I've always enjoyed being hated. The people that hate you make it all worthwhile. Even if they are angry at me, at least they're talking about Marilyn Manson, and I've succeeded."

"We are a positive band and people aren't use to seeing the extreme negativity that we represent...Our fans will understand."

"I'm tired of things being so wishy washy and nobody standing up and saying, OK, this is where we're going to go. I just want to stand up and assert myself as the antichrist that America so fears. Instead of living in fear of something. I've decided to become that which everybody fears."

"We're all hypocrites, but by admitting it, you transcend it and it no longer becomes a personality defect as it is in the people who blindy cling to their own self-righteousness. By knowing all this, you grow from it."

"The Beautiful People is a statement on fascism of beauty. With commercialism and television, everything's completely dictated to you, and if you don't fit into the status quo, you're made to feel not as good as everyone else."

"If there is a god, he is a part of you."

"To me glam rock has always meant a very sacastic and over-the-top flamboyant image that was hidding something darker and more depressing underneath."

"What you hear is how i feel....You can easily say that a rebirth has taken place. Before i could and dared only to show only one side of my Marilyn Manson."

"If i say the word 'queers' in 'The Dope Show', which has no reference to homosexuality, if people see that as hateful, then i think that's in their perception...You could pick any word and make it ugly depending on the context."

"There's more to being heavy then just going all out, and that's a tough line to walk."

"The interesting thing about the album cover is that it's been banned in severel music chains because they said it was offensive. But one of the greatest points on the album is my obsession and desire to point out that religion itself contains many more offensive images then films and music...contains both my face and they body of a statue of Christ. The fact they are censoring it really proves my point, becuase they are saying that the image of Christ is offensive, which is somehting that i've tried to point out."

"Sadly, the only thing that separates us from apes is the ability to creat art."

"If you don't want to hurt anybody after listening to the entire record, i think you can take it back for a refund."

"So whatever i do is inspired by you, and whatever your kids do is inspired by me, so who do you really want to point the finger at? You've got to turn around and look at yourself, because it's your world that i grew up in."

"I really just pointed the finger back at the people that pointed the finger at me. Or snapped thier finger off and stuck it up their ass."

"It's displeasing for the president to decry violence in America, while at the same time he's sending bombs overseas to kill other people."

"...i've always had a hate for the way America sells fear. We'll put a criminal on the cover of a magazine rather than a victim."

"People are probably a bit over saturated by this generic hip-hop/metal that's been rehashed for the past two years. It's a sad time in music, almost like disco, in that there's no need for lyrics because they're not talking about anything."

"I'm not saying that when i perform that i'm Barry Manilow, but i'm also not killing kids and beating up dogs and things like that."

"I've never been and never will be a satan worshipper or someone who worships the devil."

"When people say 'I want to be like you', i tell them if you want to be like me, then be yourself."

"If people are going to hate me, i want them to hate me for the right reasons."

"Hawaii is the type of place that would make you want ot kill yourself if you are like me and dislike sunshine and happiness and people enjoying themselves."

"Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats for its problems. Well, here i am."

"Art is the free expression of the artist and they tried to stop us from expressing ourselves, our art."

"People fear what they don't understand, and lash out against it."

"In the world that i envision, Marilyn Manson isn't necessary, but that's not the world we live in"

"I speak in reality. I don't tty to hide anything from anybody, and that's the most dangerous thing about our music that parents are so afraid of."

"We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves."

"It's my duty to be as ugly and filthy as i am, so the audience can experience what i have."

"What good would Marilyn Manson be it nobody hated Marilyn Manson?"